How to Get Backlinks from Good Housekeeping

Good Housekeeping has a Domain Rating of 83 and receives 15M+ monthly visitors. A single editorial link from Good Housekeeping carries more ranking weight than dozens of links from lower-authority sites. Google treats Good Housekeeping as a trusted, high-authority publisher, which is precisely why a link from them moves your domain authority faster than most other sources.

Paid link schemes involve paying directly for a placement with no editorial oversight, which violates Google's guidelines and risks a manual penalty. The Good Housekeeping placements Dot Mirror secures are genuinely editorial: pitched through direct relationships with Good Housekeeping contributors and editors, reviewed by their editorial team, and indistinguishable from organically earned links. They're compliant because they go through the same process any earned placement would.

Link inserts on existing Good Housekeeping content typically go live within 14–21 days. Guest post placements require editorial scheduling and take 3–6 weeks from pitch to publication. We'll give you a specific estimate based on the type of Good Housekeeping placement you want and your campaign brief.

A DR 83 link from Good Housekeeping will meaningfully shift your domain authority and improve rankings on competitive keywords, especially when paired with a strategic anchor text that targets your highest-priority terms. Most clients see measurable ranking movement within 60–90 days of their first high-authority placements going live.

Every placement comes with a 90-day link replacement guarantee. If a Good Housekeeping link goes down for any reason within 90 days, we replace it with a comparable or higher-DR link at no additional cost. You can see the link URL, DR, anchor text, and indexed confirmation within 7 days of it going live.